Excerpt from Traits of Travel, Vol. 3 of 3: Or, Tales of Men and Cities

Me their readiness to notice. Faults of character, in preference to merits. They. Slide over the smooth sward of national virtues, without re mark; but cannot see a pebble on their path without making it a stumbling block. They prefer what is Singular and striking to that which is general and passive. They find the former in national defects, for these, like indi' vidual failings, stand out in full relief. They are the beaked promontories, against which most voyagers are afraid of striking, which they describe with a Shudder, and ¿y from without examining. But each jutting rock is furnished with its beacon, not only to warn the stranger of peril, but to light him to safety in many a verdant recess. In the French revolution, for instance, the most marked objects, view it from what point we will, are its crimes. But if we boldly enter on the scenes of their commission, how much redeeming softness, what a fund of downy virtues may the mind repose on, to save.

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